You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
Canada has some very, very dark histories, from internments to turning away the St. Louis and the Komagata Maru, but none is darker than our abject failure to respect rights, the spirit and intent of the original treaties with First Nations, Métis Nation, and Inuit peoples. We have to transform that relationship.
And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.
You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the president elect is going to do!